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Monday, March 03, 2008

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Monday, February 11, 2008
Trends
Reuters Wants The World To Be Tagged
Read/Write Web
Yahoo rejects Microsoft's $44.6B bid
AFX via Forbes
Yang's secret plan for a Yahoo comeback
ValleyWag
Microsoft Responds to Yahoo! Announcement
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
U.S. Internet Advertising Grew by 27% to $25.5 billion in 2007
IDC
The Coming Ad Revolution: Esther Dyson
WSJ Online*
Starbucks to offer limited free Wi-Fi
Seattle PI
How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free
The New York Times
Magazines Take a Hit at the Newsstand
FOLIO: Magazine
Let's (Not) Make a Deal With YouTube
MediaWeek
Ad Agencies See a Window to Alter the Business of Television
The New York Times

Best Practices
User-led Innovation: A New Framework for Co-creating Business and Social Value
Smart Mobs

Cool Tools
Android Hands-On Video: It's Fast, It's Still Not There
Gizmodo
Hurox: One social networking site that does everything
Download Squad

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Danger Inc., Strengthens Mobile Consumer Vision
Microsoft
VentureBeat raises $320,000 seed round, traffic growing
VentureBeat

Products, Markets & People
Google Launches Online Apps for Enterprise
International Business Times
VisualCV Thinks It’s Time to Update That Resume
TechCrunch
Mark Logic Announces New Quick Start Package for Vertical
Content Delivery

MarketWire
Bnet.com branches out: CNET business information site bulks up its content offerings
BtoB Online
Clickability Launches On Demand Web Content Management Platform and New Product Editions
PR Newswire
LexisNexis Introduces Prospect Portfolio to Identify New Prospects, Shorten Research Time for Sales
Teleborsa
Tribune Interactive chief Tim Landon replaced
Chicago Tribune

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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Trends
In CBS Test, Mobile Ads Find Users
The New York Times
This Is Not Our Bubble
Read/Write Web
Why Google's unstoppable
ValleyWag
Is Google About to Buy Bebo For $1 Billion To $1.5 Billion? Or Will it Be MySpace?
TechCrunch
LinkedIn Announces New Research Platform
O'Reilly Radar
Yahoo resistance costing Microsoft
Electronista
China backs off on new online video rules
AFP via Google News
Is Your Reputation Worth $15 Billion?
Forbes
Obama, the Internet and the Decline of Big Money and Big Media
techPresident
What & Who Will Move The Web Forward?
Social Media Today
What's India searching for online?
Google Blog
Time Warner CEO: We Can Grow Time Inc., May Spin Off AOL
FOLIO: Magazine
Google Aims to Crack China With Free Music Push
WSJ Online
Thomson rethinks Reuters brand
FT.com
Google Likely Out of Wireless Auction, And Happy
Forbes
Leaked Yang memo calls for hard work, commitment, and anybody but Microsoft
ValleyWag

Best Practices
Why Social Applications Will Thrive In A Recession
Groundswell
Performance Of Social Media Marketing Decidedly Mixed for Big Brands
Web Pro News

Cool Tools
Spotstart!: Federated Web search
Museum of Modern Betas
Music To Be Tagged So Search Engines Can Pick Up The Beat
Science Daily
Reuters Releases Calais Web Service
Programmable Web

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
AmericanTowns.com Adds Local Real Estate Information and Search from Trulia
BusinessWire
thePlatform looks to integrate online content 'ecosystem' via partnerships
Content Agenda

Products, Markets & People
New Reference Data Web Portal from A-Team Group - ReferenceDataReview.com
PR-USA.NET
Reed Construction Data Invests in Major Data Reporting Initiative
PR Newswire
Microsoft adCenter Labs unveils digital advertising enhancements, including contextual ads for video
BtoB Online

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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Trends
Charge, Ad Slump Sink Gannett
WSJ Online
Yahoo! and the future of the Internet
Google Blog
Murdoch: 'Definitely' No Yahoo Bid; No To AOL, Too
paidContent.org
Google: Like A Rock (That Is, Falling Like One)
Paris Lemon
What you all are missing about Google's view on Yahoo deal
Scobelizer
Google Delays Android Mobile Phone SDK
mocoNews
The Industry Standard 2.0: Their Analysis, Your Predictions
TechCrunch
Tipster: Digg/Ask Project Launching "Very Soon"
Silicon Valley Insider
Defying online-ad supremacists, Super Bowl most lucrative ever
Valleywag
Building Internal Support for a Corporate Blog
Social Media Today
Google, Yahoo Critically Dependent on Newspapers
OhMyNews
Great Firewall of China Faces Online Rebels
The New York Times

Best Practices
Is Google's Social Graph API a Creeping Privacy Violation?
Read/Write Web
Kevin Kelly on business models in a world of free copy-ability
P2P Foundation

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
Collexis Holdings, Inc. Acquires a Leading Legal Publisher, Lawriter LLC
BusinessWire
AOL acquires widget maker Goowy
Download Squad
LexisNexis(R) Licenses Reuters Health Professional Medical News Wire
BusinessWire via Fox News
Near-Time and AltSearchEngines Announce Partnership to Build Online Technology Communities
BusinessWire via PR-Inside

Products, Markets & People
Microsoft plans new Windows Live, Live search releases
CNET News
go2 Media Puts Politics on Cell Phones
BusinessWire
News Corp. 2Q Net Rises On TV, Cable, Internet Growth
Dow Jones via SmartMoney.com
Dow Jones' Ventures group to explore new products
BtoB Online
Elinor Hirschhorn Named Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Officer of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Simon & Schuster

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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Trends
Google Looks Recession-Proof to Analysts
Wired News
Amazon Web Services: Bigger Than Amazon: Kindle Does Well
Read/Write Web
Google and Dell tipped to reveal iPhone rival plans
MarketingWeek
Auction Bid Triggers Airwaves Open Access
The New York Times
A Tour of Google's New Experimental Search. Verdict: Awesome
Ars Technica
ComScore says social networks' growth is slowing
ValleyWag
Fresh from New York: Trends in online advertising
VentureBeat
Music labels say no deal with Qtrax
Reuters
Verizon: We don't want to play copyright cop on our network
CNET News
Wiki maps replace toilet walls for some
Newindpress India
Washington jumps on Wiki bandwagon
The Tennessean

Best Practices
B2B Social Networking at the SIIA Information Industry Summit
Clara Shih
Google is now an OpenID provider
Social Media Today
Keeping Citations Straight, and Finding New Ones
Inside Higher Ed
Generating ROI from eye-tracking
e-Consultancy

Cool Tools
Garmin announces the nuvifone
Engadget
Instapaper, A Beautifully Simple Bookmarking Tool
ParisLemon
Google Universal Search: 2008 Edition
Search Engine Landd
Rating Burner Debuts With RSS Feed Ranking, Growth Stats
Louis Gray
Delver announces personalized social search engine
Download Squad
Skype released for PSP
Download Squad

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
SezWho Partners with BlogCatalog for Distribution of Comment Reputation System
TechCrunch
OCLC Acquires EZproxy Remote Authentication Software
Library Journal

Products, Markets & People
Mosio Uses Twitter For Mobile Q&A
Mashable
Google Finance UK open for business
Google Blog

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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Trends
Deal pace for Internet content segment strong, valuations rocket
BtoB Online
Yahoo serves up layoffs but no strategy
CNET News
Reuters Permits Publishers to Freely Monetize Video and to Offer Downloads (video)
Beet.tv
'Wall Street Journal' plans move to midtown, will add sports section
BtoB Online
Wireless auction concerns rise as some airwaves languish
Reuters
Microsoft ventures into open access chemistry
Chemistry World
Still and Eye on Diller vs. Malone
Reuters MediaFile
ISPs new role in network control
Content Agenda
WSJ's Web site adds Facebook function
AP via Yahoo! News
Have Facebook Apps Peaked in Popularity?
Read/Write Web
Coca-Cola Launches a Corporate Blog
Social Media Today
Google Introducing new search views
Google Blog
Dvorak: Wikipedia Just Gets Better, Despite All Odds
PC Magazine via Fox News
Video Activists With “New Screw Tube” Campaign Against YouTube Dominance
P2P Foundation
Viacom Chief Says Company Is 'Recession-Resistant'
Bloomberg News
New Media Icon CNET Grapples With Newer Media Rivals
WSJ Online*
TV Showman, Once Exiled, Returns With Video Site
The New York Times

Best Practices
Beyond Vertical Search to Business Networks
Read/Write Web
Break.com CEO Keith Richman on Online Video Market & Video
Advertising

paidContent.org
Startups Abandon Moore’s Law
GigaOM

Cool Tools
Sprout: The Online WYSIWYG Editor for Flash
TechCrunch
MySpace Developer Platform Launching on February 5th
Mashable
Create Your Own Blog Version of Twitter
Web Pro News
CarTorrent - Peer-to-peer networking for cars
The Guardian

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
Yahoo To Reach Out And Touch 70 Million AT&T Mobile Users with Contract Renewal
Commweb News via TMCNet
Randall-Reilly Sold to Investcorp
FOLIO: Magazine
Sprint and Clearwire talking again, might still go to prom together
Engadget
Pearson to Sell Rest of Stake In FT Deutschland to Partner
WSJ Online*

Products, Markets & People
Hoover's launches professional networking tool
ComputerWorld
MuseGlobal News Hound and Blog Hound give Instant, Integrated Access to News and Information
BusinessWire via PR-Inside

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Friday, January 25, 2008
Well, the jury is in...and you liked it that way that it was! I will continue to look at ways in which annotated headlines can add value on a daily basis but for the most part people seem to like our traditional condensed version. So it shall be. For now.

Trends

Reuters Unaffected By US Slowdown
Microsoft Reports Record Revenue

WSJ.com to Retain Subscription Component - WSJ.com

VentureBeat » Google Health launching soon?

Report: iPhones piling up at AT&T stores | One More Thing - CNET News.com

Digg: How The Internet's Biggest Social News Site Saved Itself (Again) - Gawker

Battelle Turns Down $100 Million Offer For FM Publishing. Decides To Shop Around For a Higher Price.- TechCrunch

Is Google's gamble Wikipedia's nightmare? - iMedia Connection


Best Practices
Alchemist Author Pirates His Own Books - TorrentFreak
Using Facebook to Build Community - Social Media Today

Bands, fans find new ways to connect - Reuters

The Wiki That Runs a Radio Show - The Globe and Mail


Cool Tools
Google expands YouTube Mobile: Watch any video on your phone - Download Squad

Deals, Partnerships and Sales

Copernic Announces Agreement With Yellow Pages Group to Provide Local Content to the Mamma.Com Search Engine

Attributor Grows Customer Base, Adds Sales Leadership - BusinessWire

Mochila Welcomes American Media, Inc. as Latest Member of Online Media Marketplace - BusinessWire

IAC Buying Major Chunk In HealthCentral; Carlyle, Sequoia & Polaris Also Investing; Total $50M - paidContent.org

Endeca Gets $15M Embrace From Intel, SAP

Products, Markets and People
Elsevier Extends Electronic Content Offering

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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Trends

Sector Snap: Online Content Dives - AP via CNN Money
A bad day for Answers.com and other public online publishers. An easy target for panicked investors.

Hundreds of Layoffs Expected at Yahoo - New York Times
Expected cutbacks, WSJ reports also that Yahoo Worlds brand effort has been cut, Yahoo! Answers to be managed by Europe.

Yahoo, Please Put Up A Fight - GigaOM
Om Malik rants about Yahoo's loss of USD 20 billion in market capitalization and points to its need to dominate more market segment verticals. I don't know that this is possible in a highly horizontal brand like Yahoo's built around traditional media aggregation. More later on ContentBlogger.


Editor Fires Parting Shot at His Chain - New York Times
Departing editor thinks that quality has suffered with newsroom cuts. Not a "get rewrite" insight, but he's right in that newspapers are losing their ability to attract top-quality writers.

CNET Board Fights Takeover - Trading Markets|
While public media stocks get dumped, private holdings are still very much in play.

Revisiting Googlezon: The Future of the News Media - Portfolio.com
The creators of the famous EPIC video in 2004 that predicted the fall of major media outlets reflect on how they got some things right, but underestimated the role of social media in democratizing content.

Proposal to extend Euro copyright dies - Boing Boing
European copyright will not be extended to U.S. standards. A good thing, encourages publishers to innovate and to create more valuable new content.

IP Addresses Are Personal Data, E.U. Regulator Says - Washington Post
The EU. muddies the waters on privacy issues.

HBO launches Web service in 2 markets - ContentAgenda.com
More than 375 movies on demand via the broadband Web. HBO's preparing for the death of the cable format.

The Digg Story Doesn’t Sell Anymore - Jeffro2pt0.com
Social bookmarking sites are having problems, there's not enough community policing and editorial control in most to ensure quality. Better to stick with your real-world friends' bookmarks in Facebook oftentimes.

Tribune reporters, now on Facebook - Reuters MediaFile
"The dangers of YouTube and Facebook." Man, what a gap in consciousness.

LinkedIn chairman hints at IPO in 2009 - ValleyWag
An acquisition is ruled out for now. Seems counterintuitive, but with LinkedIn's extraordinary growth as of late perhaps it's not altogether unthinkable to go IPO next year.

Best Practices

Search, Content Processing, and the Great Database Controversy - Beyond Search
Stephen Arnold contemplates the future of the database in an era in which the world is a database.

The Only Way For Journalists To Understand The Web Is To Use It - Publishing 2.0
Good compare-and-contrast of journalism styles between blog-oriented publishing and traditional print-oriented publishing.

How Free And Paid Approaches Do Complement Each Other - Robin Good
"Freemium" debate from a fresh angle - good take.

Streaming Ads Driving Users Away From Content: Report - paidContent.org
Younger people are more tolerant, but don't recall much of them.

YouTube Community Council Provides Update - WebProNews
More social media portals are opening up to user groups that provide input on both features and policies.

Handpicked Video - RobinGood.TV
Robin Good TV has changed his focus to aggregating video clips from sources not normally highlighted in online news. Good model that should be incorporated into other social media aggregation services.

Cool Tools

Orchestr8 Widgetizes Content with New Clipping Tool - Mashable
This looks to be very, very interesting on the surface - in essence turn any Web page into a platform for a personal or shared mashup. Will explore.

Pownce goes live - Download Squad
A Web-only alternative to Twitter. Kind of an oxymoron, but interesting nevertheless.

New Cell Phone Boasts Unique 'Foldaway' Screen - CityNews:
A very cool idea - a phone with a screen larger than an iPhone that folds into a tiny phone.

Deals, Partnerships and Sales

Publicis, Google reveal digital ad collaboration - Reuters via CNET News.com
Google eyes French ad partner.

ProQuest acquires RefWorks
Good acquisition to help ProQuest build a more effective social network of collaborative researchers.

B2B Newsletter Firm FierceMarkets Bought By Questex Media - paidContent.org
Sounds like a pretty good match, FierceMarkets will provide good infrastructure for events marketing.

Alfresco Secures $9 Million in Series C Funding Led by SAP Ventures - PR Newswire
More than USD 19 million now backing this open source content management startup.

Products

Plaxo Pulse Optimized for 4 Million iPhones - Mashable
Plaxo pushes platform integration. Socialware is supplanting hardware as the common denominator for communication.

Alacra Launches Premium Content Ad Network - PR Web
Clever use of online ad technology to put premium content in context, sharing revenues from purchased research with advertisers. Pay-per-action with a twist. Good stuff. - post by jblossom

Pitt's university press to test demand for digital publishing - AP
Be still, o my heart. How daring.

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Friday, January 18, 2008

Media Biz Recession fears hit media stocks hard - CNN Money

tags: trends

  • With a presidential campaign year ahead cable TV ads are likely to be strong, offsetting general media weakness. - post by jblossom

Rumormonger: The coming online-ad apocalypse - ValleyWag

tags: trends

  • Yes, Virginia, there will be an online ad recession - and it's already been hitting Google. - post by jblossom

Dueling Stats: Yahoo, Google Vie For Top Site - Internet News

tags: trends

  • Would someone please come up with ome consistent online metrics? - post by jblossom

Directors, Studios Reach ‘Tentative’ Three-Year Deal; Residual Rate For Paid Downloads ‘Doubled’ - paidContent.org

tags: trends

  • The guilds know where revenues are moving and they want their share. - post by jblossom

Google finding success in D.C.; The company is beginning to flex some lobbying muscle. - ContentAgenda

tags: trends

  • Google is learning the Washington game pretty well, just in time to take on the FCC's broadband auction. - post by jblossom

Internet 'significant in 14 or 15 years time' until then the paper makes the money, claims Sun editor - Journalism.co.uk

tags: trends

  • 'Gads, some print folks are still pretty darn dense... - post by jblossom

Supreme Court Declines To Hear Orphan Works Case - Library Journal

tags: trends

  • Brewster Kahle is denied his challenge to extended copyrights - for now. - post by jblossom

New York Times, big in Bucharest - MediaFile

tags: trends

  • The NY Times, like other major news brands, will be focusing on broader global revenues to offset domestic markets stagnation. - post by jblossom

Next-Generation Digital Set-Top Boxes will be able to Play Content from Other Devices in the Home - Business Wire

tags: trends

  • Everybody seems to want to have a finger in controlling the distribution of media in a networked environment - and Macrovision is there with the others trying to become the all-purpose content server. - post by jblossom

Global Voices Online » An Introductory Guide to Global Citizen Media

tags: best_practices

  • Interesting case studies highlighting how people around the world are using social media to change their lives. - post by jblossom

Exclusive: Digg's secret editors - Valleywag

tags: trends

  • Social media news bookmarking sites are democratic. Except when they aren't. Turns out that editors are important after all. - post by jblossom

Content Meets the Purchase Funnel - ClickZ

tags: best_practices

  • Heidi provides a nice outline of how to ensure that you have the right content all the way through a purchasing process. - post by jblossom

Organic Content and the Printed Book - Sacred Vapor

tags: best_practices

  • Rightfully points out that eBooks are really not very innovative, just digital packaging of static content. When the standard package includes user-generated content and dynamic content then "organic" books will be more interesting. Agreed. - post by jblossom

Three Reasons Content Companies Need To Embrace Social Media - Social Media Today

tags: best_practices

  • In case you needed a crash course. - post by jblossom

Digging Deeper::Traditional Media Ready to Elevate the Conversation Online -- with Moderation - MediaShift

tags: best_practices

  • Good overview of how news organizations are finally getting with the program on moderating comments on their content. "Big" revelation: maybe registration isn't needed. - post by jblossom

IPod: Put Wikipedia on your iPod - Lifehacker

tags: cool_tools

  • The iPod/iPhone platform gets more rich content, but at 750MB it's a bit of a squeeze. - post by jblossom

Mobifusion Partners with Encyclopaedia Britannica to Bring the Most Trusted Information Source to Mobile Phones - PalmAddicts

tags: cool_tools

  • Good content, bad integration compared to Wikipedia on iPhone - post by jblossom

flickr2iPhone - Museum of Modern Betas

tags: cool_tools

  • More iPhone content - making photo sharing easy. - post by jblossom

Social Networks Optimized For The iPhone - Mashable

tags: no_tag

  • Do Facebook right on your mobile. Social media's zoning in on mobile platforms more effectively. - post by jblossom

AskMeNow - eliminate brain fog with instant text answers - Download Squad

tags: cool_tools

  • Neat - send an SMS text message to 27563 with a question, get the answer texted back. Good for 411 info, directions, maps, stock quotes, weather, flights, etc. - post by jblossom

Microsoft to serve ads on financial site EDGAR - Reuters

tags: deals_partnerships_sales

  • A content for advertising deal that gives EDGAR Online access to better ad inventory and Microsoft access to high-quality financial content - post by jblossom

Flickr brings tagging to vintage images - CNET News

tags: no_tag

  • Really neat project - get the world to categorize content for the Library of Congress. Content Nation as the world's librarians. - post by jblossom

Microsoft names Tony Scott as information chief

tags: people

  • From Disney to Microsoft - underscoring their need to become more like Apple and get a chokehold on controlling in-home content distribution. - post by jblossom

Professional Social Networks, Inc. Launches First Professional Social Network for Chief Information Officers - PR Newswire

tags: products

  • Locking up socicaal networks via functional verticals - a smart move that many publishers will be asking themselves why they hadn't taken a few years from now. - post by jblossom

Why watermarking will never replace DRM - Ars Technica

tags: best_practices

  • Some interesting arguments that watermarking needs to have some more what's-in-it-for-me motivation to become a more powerful alternative to DRM. Misses the point of watermarking, though: it should be used to increase marketing opportunities, not to prosecute. - post by jblossom

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
We're going to be trying a new format for headlines this year, your feedback as we experiment with this new style will be greatly appreciated. We have quite a few in today's batch, expect fewer headlines with more commentary as we move forward.

Facebook buying Plaxo?: VentureBeat

  • Earlier rumors seem to be solidifying, more on ContentBlogger in a bit. It's a logical match.

FCC Approves Google For Wireless Auction: WebProNews

  • The event that just might change everything that we've assumed about both Web content and telecommunications.

AP Sues AHN Media For Copyright Infringement: paidContent.org

  • Same M.O. as Moreover/Verisign suit: target companies who are trying to extract premium revenues.

2008 - The rise of social media 'super advocates': Netimperative

  • New report from Experian - I think that the concept is spot on, and will keep people busy in 2008 and beyond.

Candidates Rethink Web Strategy: AdWeek

  • This is the year in which candidates have struggled to influence conversational content on the Web, as their messages compete not only for broadcast bandwidth but also online attention bandwidth. Doing online right is still not the key fulcrum to a success .

Trying to fine-tune Yahoo: NYTimes via CNET News

  • Yahoo is beginning to find a "bottom" of sorts, at least in terms of its oftentimes negative publicity and shifting management structure. It's becoming the brand destination of choice, the usability champion and in general is filling the role of best general online aggregator. But they will need to find more content applications that are segment leaders to build more growth.

Bloggers Bring in Ad Revenue: WSJ Online (subscription)

  • It's not just weblogs, just about anyone with a little motivation can build valuable content that can generate ad revenues. Publishers need to look at aggregating social media more effectively.

Thomson-Reuters Deal to Complete in Q2: AP via Topix

  • The U.S. regulators are pushing to complete in the same timeframe as the EU. A done deal, but in a rapidly decaying financial marketplace will the deal turn out to be a longer-term investment than anticipated originally?

Samsung trademarks "SyncPaper" -- e-book reader on the way?: Engadget

  • The name has the concept right, at least. The eBook battle is far from over.

American Marketing Association releases new definition of marketing: BtoB Magazine

  • “Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.” Sounds an awful lot like our definition of content...

ProQuest Announces Aggregated Full-Text Database for Libraries: Information Today

  • ProQuest solidifes its position as the all-purpose default licensed content sources for the library set.

Open access publishing takes off in India: Indian Muslims

  • Given India's level of innovation growth, the potential for open access publications powering that growth is a potentially ominous sign for traditional publishers.

The flow of information at the Googleplex: Official Google Blog

  • Interesting demo of how Google's prediction technology can work. Is Google headed towards analysing many different kinds of trends with this technology - including financial markets?

Macworld2008 - Steve Jobs keynote speech leaked?: Pocket-lint.co.uk

  • Wikipedia has been an increasingly important force in breaking news, but now news leaks enter the fray. Appropriate when you come to think of it, it's a free-for-all in terms of publishing and the editing community can verify at will. A handy thing for the person wanting to leak anonymously when the essential content is valid but unconfirmable.

EU launches new Microsoft probes: BBC News

  • Old battle, new chapter - coming at a very bad time for Redmond. You'd think that Microsoft would have detached IE from its OS a long time ago, but unfortunately Vista is the by-product of a strategy that may no longer fit the realities of what Microsoft needs to accomplish to service the content industry effectively.

myExperiment: "myExperiment makes it really easy to find, use and share scientific workflows and other research objects, and to build communities."

  • A really interesting social media workflow tool, will be investigating this further.

Thomson Scientific Launches Journal Citation Forum Dedicated to Discussion About Citation-Based Research Evaluation: BusinessWire

  • This is a very positive development, aggregators need to start creating conversations about their markets about where and how citation-based research can benefit from new approaches to peer-reviewed content.

Nature Publishing Group and Sermo Partner to Help Physicians Access, Interpret, and Contribute to Current Medical Research: Business Wire

  • Sermo is a very interesting closed community of practicing physicians sharing information and insights, this makes for a very interesting marriage of content and community. We'll be watching this.

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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Trends
FT targets multiple content platforms via new licensing scheme
Mad.co.uk
What is a Google Profile?
Google
Industry Seethes As FCC's Martin Sets New Curbs
WSJ Online*
R.I.P.: The Web 2.0 Office Suite
Microsoft Watch
NYTCO, Media General Post Double-Digit Online Revenue Growth; Others Struggle
paidContent.org
Google looking at technology to make news accessible
Times of India
The Number of Licenses for Electronic Content Held by Libraries Triples from 2000 to 2007
PR Web
Journalists, Bloggers Have a Sorry History at Startups: Scoble Leaving PodTech
MediaShift

Best Practices
Introducing Video Sitemaps
Google Webmaster Cntrl.
Google Android Prototype: Lets Hope Looks Can Be Deceiving
TechCrunch

Cool Tools
Startup Ribbit seeks to unite telephony and the Web
Ars Technica

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
Discovery Communications Completes Acquisition Of HowStuffWorks.Com
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Schlumberger Acquires Exclusive Distribution Rights to MetaCarta for Oil & Gas Sector
Directions Magazine
LexisNexis Selects Kirtas Technologies for High-Speed Digital Book Scanning Equipment
PR Newswire
ScienceDirect To Host French-Language Journals From Elsevier Masson
MediLexicon

Products, Markets & People
Join Elsevier to create and market next generation information products
Really Simple Sidi
Google News Improves Advanced Search Features
Mashable
Bloglines rolls out new features including full site previews
Download Squad
Wolters Kluwer EUR 175 Million Share Buy-back Program
ABN Newswire
ALM Announces Publication of ''Federal Acquisition Regulations: Intellectual Property and Related Rights''
BusinessWire

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Saturday, December 15, 2007

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Thursday, December 13, 2007
Trends
2007 Year-end Zeitgeist
Google Zeitgeist
Facebook API to open up to other social networks
Download Squad
Encouraging people to contribute knowledge
Google Blog
Google's 10th Year Poses Major Strategic Challenges
PC World
Google Adds Blogs to Universal Search
PC Magazine
Wikipedia Uses Open Source to Remix Content for Education
Mashable
To Watch All Blinkx's Video Would Take 18 Million Hours
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Google Answers Stirs Zombie-Like as Google Q&A
TechCrunch
Copyright Clearance Center Launches Copyright Labs
EContent Magazine
Behind the Downfall of Ascend: Pricey Medical World acquisition gets the blame
FOLIO: Magazine
TV viewers stay glued to the box: Internet fails to pull audiences away
Variety
Murdoch May Take Three Years to Profit From Dow Jones
Bloomberg News
Amazon Kindle Hacked, Leading to More E-Books for Readers
Switched

Best Practices
Facebook Fallout: Balancing Innovation, Information Use
ClickZ News
Your Guide to Hyper-Local News
MediaShift
'E&P' Audio/Podcast: 'Wall' Coming Down on the Web?
Editor and Publisher

Cool Tools
Yahoo Pushes Content with Automatic Wordpress Plugin
Mashable
Google Turning My Maps Into Social Mapping Platform With Collaboration, Ratings, And Comments
Search Engine Land

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
News Corporation Completes Dow Jones & Co. Acquisition
News Corporation
ClipSyndicate Signs Video Content Deal with The Press Association for International Distribution
PR Newswire
NewsGator Secures $12M in Venture Capital Funding and Adds Lisa Reeves to Its Board of Directors
MarketWire via Earth Times
Infotrieve gets $5m to speed growth
Connecticut Post
Wolters Kluwer buys GEE compliance products portfolio from Thomson Corporation
Thomson Fin. via CNN Money
Yahoo Deal Adds Content From CNBC
The New York Times

Products, Markets & People
Dow Jones Focuses Client Solutions Organization on Custom, Integrated Approach to Information Delivery
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Real estate site will compete with Zillow FrontDoor draws from HGTV
Seattle PI
InfoUSA prepares to launch infoUK operation
BtoB Online
Second Life's CTO Resigns
The New York Times
Northern Light Adds Industry Authority Blog Search to SinglePoint Market Research Portal
PR Newswire via EarthTimes

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Trends

As 2007 winds down the war for open Web access in mobile content is just starting to take off...
FCC poised to unlock cell phone user access
Mercury News via Content Agenda
Google versus the telecoms
CNET News
Google officially announces wireless spectrum participation, but are they serious?
Download Squad
iPhone Delivers: Bigger Browsing Share Than Windows Mobile
TechCrunch
Verizon gets behind Android, still iffy on Open Handset Alliance
Engadget
Apple faces challenges with iPhone in Europe
CNET News

Second-guessing Google is a major cottage industry, but in spite of weak product focus it continues to expand its markets...
Is Google Headed in the Wrong Direction?
eWeek
Another Googler gone: Is Google's brain being drained?
ValleyWag
Google to Enter Renewable Energy Business
InformationWeek
Gmail Hearts AIM
Google Blog
DoubleClick Or Not, Google To Explore More Partnerships
paidContent.org
Google nears DoubleClick OK
The Deal
Google Gets OK to Display Copyrighted Images
LA Times

But Google's greatest weakness remains failing to crack the social media marketplace effectively...
What Google hates and loves: Why Wikipedia is taking over search results
OnoTech
Is Google 'Wiki' Getting Whacked for Google 'Sites?'
PC Magazine
Google Experimenting With Digg Style Voting On Search Results
TechCrunch via OriginalSignal

After years of false starts and fortunes spent on online publishing major publishers are finally turning out engaging Web content...
Is CondéNet's Web Approach Paying Off?
WSJ Online*
The CNN/YouTube Republican Debate
Google Blog

Memo to Dow watchers: did you really expect that the status quo would last a second longer than Murdoch wanted it to...?
James Murdoch seen as News Corp heir
FT.com
Wall St Journal's New Glossy to Go Global
AdAge
Murdoch Said to Have Plan for Shake-Up at Dow Jones
The New York Times
The Exit Interview: WSJ Publisher Gordon Crovitz
paidContent.org

With Reuters cozying up to Thomson and The New York Times Bloomberg gets ready for a broader media footprint...
Bloomberg LP gets LBO guy
Reuters MediaFile
Reuters and Intl Herald Tribune sign content deal
The Guardian

A leaner, meaner New York Times is thriving on open Web exposure and a more aggressive pursuit of global markets...
NYTimes Surges, Cnet Slumps
TechCrunch
NY Times Announces Layoffs, Hiring Freeze
New York Observer

But the race to convert to profitable online outlets remains difficult for publishers tied to aging print platforms...
Newspaper Companies to See Declines in 2008
Editor & Publisher
ARL Report: Five Years to E-Journal Tipping Point?
Library Journal
B-to-b magazine revenue, ad pages down through August
BtoB Online
Once a Mainstay of Magazines, Cigarette Makers Are Dropping Print Ads
The New York Times
FCC Clears Tribune Co. Sale
AP via Yahoo! Finance

Facebook backlash increases but it's still the fastest growing online community for prosumer adults...
Facebook founder faces shareholder revolt
ValleyWag
Facebook and The Myth Of Contextual Advertising
Read/Write Web
Serious Privacy Issues With Facebook’s Beacon
Webomatica
Media CEOs are Facebook and BlackBerry users
Reuters

Placing pressure on business databases to become "must see" content...
LinkedIn Opens Site to Developers
The New York Times
Announcing LinkedIn News, Redesigned Homepage & more
LinkedIn Blog
Dun & Bradstreet Buys AllBusiness.com
AP via Houston Chronicle

Wikipedia wrestles with threats to its content quality and a broadening array of user-generated content communities...
Wikipedia: Where There’s Democracy, There’s Oligarchy
Mashable
Wikipedia Moves Towards Creative Commons Licensing
Lessig Blog
Insightory Wants To Be Wikipedia For Management Knowledge
TechCrunch
TechPresident, 10Questions Put Spotlight on 'Voter-Generated Content'
MediaShift

With social media becoming a mainstay of publishing, the winners will be those who blend the best professional and personal content...
The future of media
Silicon Republic
Pluck hooking up media outlets with social networks
The Globe and Mail
Jaron Lanier: Pay me for my content - When will Web's wealth reach creative people's doors?
Dallas Morning News

For the losers, well, there's always eBay...
Another Startup Lists on eBay
GigaOM

If you think that it's been interesting online so far, what happens when "Google" is the first English word for billions of people...?
One Laptop Per Child orders surge
The Boston Globe

In other major trends in content this week...
EU Online Copyright Bill Coming; Publishers Debate DRMs
IP Watch
Adobe, Yahoo test running ads inside PDF documents
Reuters
Bloomberg Seeks Less Info Control in China
AP via Google
Amazon Askville to take on Yahoo Answers
ValleyWag
NASA Site Seeks to Draw the MySpace Crowd
The New York Times
Dow Jones May Sell Community Newspapers
AP via Motley Fool
EU pushes for open access research
Scientist
Lots of Little Screens: TV Is Changing Shape
The New York Times
Nokia in Free Music Pact With Universal
Reuters via The New York Times

Best Practices
Business Lessons from Kiva
Read/Write Web
6 Reasons I’m Not Hooked on Podcasts
MediaShift
Making Money In The Long Tail: Dream Or Opportunity?
Robin Good
MSN Search Fights Duplicate Content
Web Pro News
Nokia Study: 25 Percent of Entertainment in 2012 Will Be Created by Peer Groups
Nokia
New corporate "Blog Council" misses the point of blogging
Ars Technica
Where’s the Content? - Positioning Ads on Your Blog
ProBlogger
Social Websites As Games - How to Win at Digg, YouTube, Facebook
Read/Write Web
Google Smart Pricing: What Is It And Why It May Affect Your AdSense Earnings
Robin Good
Effective Search Engine Optimization Means Harnessing Social Media
Web Pro News
YouTube as a Source of Information on Immunization: A Content Analysis
Journal of the AMA
Extreme Democracy - When Wikis Inform Legislation
New Assignment.net
Revamping the Story Flow for Journalists
MediaShift
Stealing eBooks with Amazon Kindle Is as Easy as Stealing Music
Marketing Vox News
Content Cash in India
New India Press
Friending, Ancient or Otherwise
The New York Times
Creating a Niche eBook in a Weekend Using Off-line Resources
Best Syndication
Social Media Releases & Meatball Sundaes
Web Pro News
The Launch Dilemma: Print or Digital First?
FOLIO: Magazine
Study: More Than 60% Don't Trust Campaign Coverage
Editor & Publisher

Cool Tools
Cellfish Provides Mobile Media Conversion With AddToPhone
TechCrunch
Yahoo! concocts a spicier new version of Widgets and Konfabulator
Download Squad
Plaxo adds Windows Mobile calendar and contacts sync
Plaxo
WetPaint White Labels For Businesses And Brands
TechCrunch
ICQ Founders Roll Out Alpha Version of Online TV Platform
WorldScreen
Eurekster Officially Launches Custom Search Swickis
Mashable
Alfresco Mashes Up Content Management, Social Computing
eWeek
Microsoft Challenges the iPod (Again)
The New York Times
Google Reader Now Recommends Feeds
Micro Persuasion
Google's My Location: A Peek at Location on Android
O'Reilly Radar
AT&T CEO outs 3G iPhone: "You'll have it next year"
Engadget

Deals, Partnerships & Sales

MuseGlobal's Integration and Mark Logic Work Together as Ultimate Content Management System
eMediaWire
Formtek and Alfresco Partner to Introduce Open Source Enterprise Content Management
Reuters
LexisNexis Names Doug Kaplan CEO for Asia Pacific Region
BusinessWire
Endeca Teams with EntropySoft on Data Integration and Platform Development
PR Newswire via Ad Hoc News
Copyright Clearance Center Integrates Licensing Services with HighWire Press
BusinessWire
Reed Construction Data Acquires Tectonic Partners Inc.
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Universal offers free music for revenue from promotions viewed on Imeem.com.
LA Times via Content Agenda
TomTom, Google team up on business information
Reuters via CNET
Gemstar-TV Guide Sold for $2.8 Billion
FOLIO: Magazine
Social-networking company Visible Path to be acquired
CNET News
Hearst-Argyle Television and Google Strike AdWords Reseller Agreement
PR Newswire via CNN Money
InsideView Buys TrueAdvantage
Private Equity Hub
Dell To Sell Google Enterprise Search Products
CNN Money

Products, Markets & People
Forbes Launches Online Advertising Network
FOLIO: Magazine
Thomson Scientific Launches Innovation for IP Research and Analysis
Information Today
TheMarkets.com Launches Enhanced Version of Broker Voting Platform, MeritMark
PR Newswire
ALM’s Law.com and Law Technology News Launch Law Technology Now Podcast
BusinessWire
Latest Yahoo Org Changes: Scott Moore Adds Entertainment, Broady Out; LMC Splitting Up
paidContent.org
Digg adds images, new categories
Download Squad
Wiley Puts 2000 Titles Online
Book Standard
Google launches AdWords Local PlusBox
BtoB Online
Thomson Scientific Debuting Intellectual Property Research and Analysis Tool
Library Journal
Cambridge to Launch Ebooks Collections
PR Newswire via EarthTimes.org
SixApart Unloads LiveJournal on Russian Media Company SUP
Mashable
EntreWiki Launched - a new Web 2.0 Directory of Business Ideas and Opportunities
PR-USA
Variety Publisher Koonves to Step Down
Variety
IBM Updates Free Enterprise Search Tool
PC World

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Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Trends
Google Gets OK to Display Copyrighted Images
LA Times
Is Google 'Wiki' Getting Whacked for Google 'Sites?'
PC Magazine
DoubleClick Or Not, Google To Explore More Partnerships
paidContent.org
Facebook and The Myth Of Contextual Advertising
Read/Write Web
iPhone Delivers: Bigger Browsing Share Than Windows Mobile
TechCrunch
Verizon gets behind Android, still iffy on Open Handset Alliance
Engadget
Wikipedia: Where There’s Democracy, There’s Oligarchy
Mashable
Amazon Askville to take on Yahoo Answers
ValleyWag
Gmail <3 AIM: AOL Instant Messaging Acessible via Gmail Messaging
Google Blog
Newspaper Companies to See Declines in 2008
Editor & Publisher
Nokia in Free Music Pact With Universal
Reuters via The New York Times
NASA Site Seeks to Draw the MySpace Crowd
The New York Times

Best Practices
Nokia Study: 25 Percent of Entertainment in 2012 Will Be Created by Peer Groups
Nokia
Google Smart Pricing: What Is It And Why It May Affect Your AdSense Earnings

Robin Good
Effective Search Engine Optimization Means Harnessing Social Media
Web Pro News
YouTube as a Source of Information on Immunization: A Content Analysis
Journal of the AMA
Extreme Democracy - When Wikis Inform Legislation
New Assignment.net
Revamping the Story Flow for Journalists
MediaShift
Stealing eBooks with Amazon Kindle Is as Easy as Stealing Music
Marketing Vox News

Cool Tools
Eurekster Officially Launches Custom Search Swickis
Mashable
Alfresco Mashes Up Content Management, Social Computing
eWeek

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
Endeca Teams with EntropySoft on Data Integration and Platform Development
PR Newswire via Ad Hoc News
Copyright Clearance Center Integrates Licensing Services with HighWire Press
BusinessWire
Social-networking company Visible Path to be acquired
CNET News

Products, Markets & People
Digg adds images, new categories
Download Squad
Wiley Puts 2000 Titles Online
Book Standard
Google launches AdWords Local PlusBox
BtoB Online
Thomson Scientific Debuting Intellectual Property Research and Analysis Tool
Library Journal

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Monday, December 03, 2007

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Thursday, November 29, 2007
Trends
Adobe, Yahoo test running ads inside PDF documents
Reuters
Is CondéNet's Web Approach Paying Off?
WSJ Online*
The CNN/YouTube Republican Debate
Google Blog
TechPresident, 10Questions Put Spotlight on ‘Voter-Generated Content’
MediaShift
Another Googler gone: Is Google's brain being drained?
ValleyWag
Google Experimenting With Digg Style Voting On Search Results
TechCrunch via OriginalSignal
The future of media
Silicon Republic
Apple faces challenges with iPhone in Europe
CNET News
Pluck hooking up media outlets with social networks
The Globe and Mail
Dow Jones May Sell Community Newspapers
AP via Motley Fool
EU pushes for open access research
The Scientist
Is Google Headed in the Wrong Direction?
eWeek
NY Times Announces Layoffs, Hiring Freeze
New York Observer
Wall St Journal's New Glossy to Go Global
AdAge
Once a Mainstay of Magazines, Cigarette Makers Are Dropping Print Ads
The New York Times

Best Practices
Business Lessons from Kiva
Read/Write Web
Social Media Releases & Meatball Sundaes
Web Pro News
The Launch Dilemma: Print or Digital First?
FOLIO: Magazine
Google to Enter Renewable Energy Business
InformationWeek
Study: More Than 60% Don't Trust Campaign Coverage
Editor & Publisher

Cool Tools
Cellfish Provides Mobile Media Conversion With AddToPhone
TechCrunch
Yahoo! concocts a spicier new version of Widgets and Konfabulator
Download Squad
Plaxo adds Windows Mobile calendar and contacts sync
Plaxo
Microsoft Challenges the iPod (Again)
The New York Times
AT&T CEO outs 3G iPhone: "You'll have it next year"
Engadget

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
MuseGlobal's Integration and Mark Logic Work Together as Ultimate Content Management System
eMediaWire
Hearst-Argyle Television and Google Strike AdWords Reseller Agreement
PR Newswire via CNN Money
InsideView Buys TrueAdvantage
Private Equity Hub
Dell To Sell Google Enterprise Search Products
CNN Money

Products, Markets & People
Forbes Launches Online Advertising Network
FOLIO: Magazine
Variety Publisher Koonves to Step Down
Variety
IBM Updates Free Enterprise Search Tool
PC World

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Trends
Is Rupert Murdoch eyeing LinkedIn?
The Telegraph
Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data
WSJ Online*
News Corp builds online ad network
Reuters
Widgets make a big splash on the Net
USA Today
Browsing With iPhone Is Abject Faliure
Web Pro News
Search 3.0: The Blended & Vertical Search Revolution
Search Engine Land
SCImago: a new portal ranking journals and countries
Really Simple Sidi
MySpace Chief: Facebook "Substantially More Entertaining"
Reuters MediaFile
Cory Doctorow: How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook
InformationWeek
DRM-Free Classical Music: Deutsche Grammophon Launches Online MP3 Store
TechCrunch
Yahoo! launches stealth beta of myM: A Meebo competitor?
Download Squad
Wolters Kluwer EUR175 Million Share Buy-back Program
ABN Newswire
Tango Founder: Print Not Dead, But Going ‘Yearly’
FOLIO: Magazine
The Problem with Facebook's "Beacon"
Web Pro News
CyberMonday: A Gimmick Becomes a Real Trend
The New York Times*
eBook’s future isn’t ebooks: the makings of Apple’s tablet
Gadgetell

Best Practices
European vs. American Texting Cultures
Zephora.org
Books versus documents: what's wrong with so-called "e-books"
Ars Technica
An Important Lesson About Grassroots Media
Editor and Publisher

Cool Tools
Screenshots And Details On Upcoming MySpace "News Feeds"
TechCrunch
Live Documents to Challenge Microsoft Office, Google Apps
eWeek

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
Sony Attracts Dubai Cash
WSJ Online*
Dow Jones Renews Longstanding Licensing Arrangement with Bloomberg
PR Newswire via CNN Money
ABC News, Facebook Partner for Political Content
All American Patriots
Enterprise Communication Solution integrates with Facebook.
ThomasNet
Intuit Finally Buys Homestead for $170m
Read/Write Web

Products, Markets & People
Reed Construction Chief To Advise Service Provider
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Elsevier Expands ScienceDirect College Edition
PR Newswire via IT News
Elsevier Announces Launch of 2collab, New Research 2.0 Platform
CNW Group
OCLC Enhances WorldCat.org
Weekly News Digest

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Thursday, November 22, 2007
Trends
Google U.S. Web search share jumps to 58.5 pct
Reuters
Kindle sells out in on Amazon in 5.5 hours
Engadget
Google and Other People's Content
BusinessWeek
Making Social Connections and Selling Cookies
The New York Times
Feedster Quietly Slips into the Dead Pool... So Which Blog Search Engine Do You Use?
Read/Write Web
Amazon’s Kindle ebook not so kind to reading rights
P2P Foundation
AOL launches mobile assault
Mad.co.uk
Yahoo deal lets users upload, edit music; Catching up with Google is impetus for new video deal
Chronicle via Content Agenda
Facebook Stealing Google Employees At An Alarming Rate
TechCrunch
Facebook: We’re More Annoying than MySpace
Mashable
IPhone Must Be Offered Without Contract Restrictions, German Court Rules
The New York Times

Best Practices
Seth Godin's Meatball Sundae: How the Internet Changes Marketing
Web Pro News
Are You Sabotaging Your Social Stories?
Blogging Experiment
Wikis While You Work: Using Wikis in the enterprise requires a careful balance of freedom and control
eWeek
The Rise Of Hyperlocal Information
Read/Write Web

Cool Tools
Upload a Batch of Images to Flickr.com from the Desktop
Digital Inspiration
NBC Direct Sucked…Your PC Resources
NewTeeVee
SeeToo: Broadcast yourself. To one other person.
Download Squad
Google Maps goes wiki-style
Monsters & Critics

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
SAGE and Hindawi announce landmark open access agreement
First Science
British Library Selects Apex CoVantage as Digitization Partner in Expanding the Repository of UK Pub
PR USA
Lionbridge Launches CMS Alliance Program With Top Tier Content Management Partners
PR Newswire via CNN Money
blinkx Partners With Kiplinger.com to Bring Trusted Personal Finance Advice to Users Worldwide
IT News
Acxiom acquires MKTG Services
BtoB Online
Macrovision Buys Rights to Blu-ray Disc DRM Scheme
Daily Tech
The New York Public Library and Kaltura Team to Enhance Online Collaborative Rich Media
Marketwire

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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

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Monday, November 19, 2007
Trends
Google Readies Wireless Bid
PC World
The Future of Reading: Amazon's Kindle eBook Reader Debuts in Time for Christmas Shopping
Newsweek
Yahoo Could Close Poorly-Performing European Properties; Third Party Search Partnerships Coming?
paidContent.org
VideoEgg Hatches Ad Platform for Publishers
Beet.tv
It's official: I'm sick of Facebook
Connecticut Bob
Yahoo Launches Open Source Program for Distributed Computing
ResearchBuzz
Google makes moves to protect organic relevancy
Scobelizer
Music boss: we were wrong to go to war with consumers
PC Pro/Macuser
Yahoo Adds 17 Newspapers To Online Publishing Group
WSJ Online*
Companionship is good:Thomson's new WebPlus web search engine
Really Simple Sidi
Free WSJ.com: Behind the math
Reuters MediaFile
In Korea, a Boot Camp Cure for Web Obsession
The New York Times*

Best Practices
Leveraging the Power of Blogs in an Overcrowded Market
ProBlogger
Beware Dr. Google
San Francisco Chronicle
Internet users spend 47% time visiting Content
Virtual Cocoon
Banned User Abused Factiva
The Harvard Crimson

Cool Tools
Facebook Sponsored Pages Add Feeds: NY Times Gets it First
Mashable
A breakthrough in database translation
PR Leap
OpenSocket Facebook app released in beta enables OpenSocial to run on Facebook
OpenSocket

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
Voxant, the New Media Network, Adds illumistream health to Growing Catalog of Fully Licensed Health
PR-USA
Edmunds.com Hops Into the Driver's Seat with Digital Element
BusinessWire via PR Inside
Springer And Portico Join Forces In Electronic Archiving For Scholars, Researchers And Students
Medical News Today
SirsiDynix Partners with Brainware, Inc.
Library Journal

Products, Markets & People
Alacra Launches Alacra Content Marketplace
PR Web
Ascend Media shutters three medical titles
BtoB Online

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Trends
The Daily Show: FCC's Chairman Martin Argues for Consolidating Media Ownership
The New York Times
Murdoch: News Corp. Strong, WSJ.com Should be Free
CNBC
Newspapers and ads: Missed delivery
CNET News
Media companies want more from the FCC
Reuters MediaFile
Kevin Rose makes Wall Street Journal free for Digg users
ValleyWag
Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network
Bits - The New York Times
News aggregator one-stop-shops stay strong
IT Week
Ann Moore, CEO,Time Inc.: Bankers ‘Lust’ For Spinoff But Don’t See It Happening
paidContent.org
Connecting the Social Graph: Member Overlap at OpenSocial and Facebook
Compete
Yahoo, Jailed Journalists Settle Lawsuit
AP via SFGate
EMC opens Documentum up
eChannelLine
Shelfari and the New Social Contract
O'Reilly Radar
Google Wiki, Where Art Thou?
eWeek
Overseas markets for information could outpace those in the Americas by 2010
BtoB Online

Best Practices
Microsoft Word Plug-in Will Aid Visually Impaired
eWeek
Google is Changing the Definition of a "Click" on AdSense Ads
Search Engine Roundtable
Newspaper Industry Group ABC to Change Circulation Rules
Bloomberg News

Cool Tools
Connect Google Talk With Yahoo! or Windows Live Messenger
Digital Inspiration

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
Dow Jones Announces Distribution Agreement with InfoNgen
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Yahoo! Delivers Compelling Products and Services Designed for the Mobile Consumer in Asia
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Zillow.com(R) and 11 Newspaper Companies Form Online Real Estate Partnership
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Mobifusion Releases Suite of Mobile Content Applications with Dialog Telekom
TMCNet
Aptara Announces $29 Million-Plus Contract Extension With Bowne & Co.
Marketwire via CNN Money
Sirius, XM shareholders approve deal
MarketWatch

Products, Markets & People
Bebo Launches 'Open Media' A New Vision for Social Media and Entertainment
PR Web
Google Starts Russian Version Of Video Web Site YouTube
The Moscow Times
Daily Kos Founder to Join Newsweek
Mashable

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Monday, November 12, 2007
Trends
Google to acquire Sprint Nextel for Mobile WiMax?
Engadget
IBM Predicts the End of Advertising as We Know It
IBM
FCC Moves to Place Restrictions on Cable TV
Washington Post
Google turns to X Factor's Fuller for push into TV
The Guardian
New Facebook Ad Techniques Raise Privacy Concerns
PC World
Facebook SocialAds - the missing feature
Deborah Schultz
Portals Think Small for the Latest News
WSJ Online*
Why Are Founders and Execs Leaving Second Tier Social Networks?
TechCrunch
McClatchy on review for downgrade on declining advertising revenue - Moody's
Thomson Financial/ CNN
NY Daily News Joins Yahoo Newspaper Consortium; Wants HotJobs Hookup
paidContent.org
rssHugger Avoiding Technorati’s Pitfalls?
Mashable
NBC Direct launches: NBC's kind of lame video download service
Download Squad
What WebMD Can Teach Brands
AdWeek
Content is Dead, Community is King?
Search Engine Watch
STM publishers and Online Ad Spending
Really Simple Sidi
John Markoff is Kicking Your Butt on Facebook
ValleyWag
DRM-Free Music Boosts Online Album Sales
PC World/ Macworld
Google Options Make Masseuse a Multimillionaire
The New York Times

Best Practices
How Can Open Source Software Open Up Facebook?
SmartMobs
Implicit Web: a brief introduction
ZDNet Blogs
Wikipedia: University study explores content, editing
Shakopee Valley News
Survey: Users Trust Information On Social Networks Strongly
Web Pro News
The nautilus: where - and how - Open Access publishing will actually work
The Scientist

Cool Tools
Social Networking Meets Video Microblogging On Seesmic Upcoming Platform
Robin Good
Google Android SDK is Live: Video Demo from Google
Mashable
Jango Pumps Up the Social Radio Volume
eCommerce Times

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
AOL Acquires Israeli Social Search Start-Up Yedda
paidContent.org
IBM to buy Cognos for $5 billion
Blogging Stocks
ProQuest and Gale Reach Agreement
eContent Magazine
Forbes acquires Clipmarks, creates network of sites
BtoB Online

Products, Markets & People
Baidu Debuts a Financial Information Service
Trading Markets.com
Voxant, the Media Network, Extends Advertising Reach
Taxi
World's First Travel Bookmarking Site Launches
PR Urgent
Attributor Launches Online Content Tracking Subscription Service
Information Week
Wolters CEO not in market for major new deal
Reuters
AOL Uploads Tacoda's Morgan
Silicon Alley Insider

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Monday, November 05, 2007

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Sunday, November 04, 2007
Trends
Google to unveil 'Android' phone software
CNET News
AP's Curley: We Have Come to a 'Fork in the Road'
Editor & Publisher
AP Is Dead ... Killed By Blogs & Aggregation
Web Pro News
EU cracks down on fake blogger astroturfing
The Register
MySpace, Bebo, and SixApart Adopt Now-Formidable OpenSocial
Wired Epicenter
Apps Already Coming for Google's New OpenSocial
PC World
MuseStorm Announces Gadget Based on New OpenSocial APIs
PR Newswire
Why Facebook Shouldn't Fear OpenSocial
Read/Write Web
OpenSocial Hacked In Minutes
Center Networks
AOL Purchases Ad Company Quigo For $300 Million
Mashable
Advertising Will Set Mobile Free
Wireless Week
What exactly is Britney Spears trying to tell us?
LA Times
Oregon Attorney General Says No to RIAA; Files Motion to Quash on Behalf of University of Oregon
Recording Industry/ People
Thanks to BitTorrrent, Net neutrality debate reignites
CNET News
Murdoch’s WSJ Already Going Global
Reuters MediaFile
Advertisers, Only You Can Save Web 2.0
MicroPersuasion
The New York Times Tries Bookmarking Links - You Know, Like the Web Has Been Doing for Years
The New York Times
'Newsweek' to Cut 500,000 From Rate Base
Ad Age

Best Practices
The Peer To Peer Manifesto: The Emergence of P2P Civilization and Political Economy
Robin Good
A Social Networking Website for Writers
WebWire
‘Fair Use’ guidelines for video remixes
P2PNet
A Brief History of the Book
Global Politician
Canadian Government Study Finds P2P Downloaders Buy More Music
Michael Geist

Cool Tools
Some might say Thoof can read minds
Austin Statesman
Retrofuturist builds "steampunk" laptop
ValleyWag

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
TheStreet.com Acquires Financial Info Sites BankingMyWay and RateWatch for $25 Million
paidContent.org
Reuters buys Australian power and gas markets information provider
Thomson Fin. via Hemscott
Answers.com Adds HealthiNation Video Content to Answer Engine(TM)
PR Newswire via CNN Money

Products, Markets & People
I, Robot: The Man Behind the Google Phone
The New York Times
LexisNexis to lay off local employees, send work overseas
Dayton Business Journal

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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Trends
Details Revealed: Google OpenSocial To Launch Thursday
TechCrunch
Google Talks Up GPhone to Verizon
PC Magazine
Am I Really Worth $300 as a Facebook User?
MediaShift
Do-not-track lists to shield Net surfers
CNET News
Thomson, Reuters Request 10-Day Extension for European Regulator to Review Acquisition
Candian Business
Driving Traffic Online: Social Networking
FOLIO: Magazine
Hulu to Threaten Cable TV, Not YouTube
TheStreet.com
Traffic Jam: Users at Newspaper Sites Still On Rise
Editor & Publisher
Yahoo: 'IP Rules'
Internet News
eBooks making same mistakes as music industry
PC Pro

Best Practices
Pay Per Click Is Popular, But Results Vary
eMarketer
Africa: ICT/Web No Longer Luxury for Citizens
AllAfrica.com
Well paid at The Wall Street Journal
Reuters MediaFile
Hitwise offers reports on new and returning visitors
BtoB Online

Cool Tools
Sneak Peek: Seekler Community List-Building
Mashable
A Cloudbook on the Horizon
The New York Times

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
Best Buy Launches Mydeo-Powered User-Gen Video Portal; Takes Minority Stake
paidContent.org
PodShow to Create 'Searchertainment' - Selects blinkx to Power Breakthrough Rich Media Search
PR Newswire
The Nielsen Company to Participate in Forbes Leadership Networks
BusinessWire
Generate Signs Three Leading Publishers to Deploy gClick Technology
PR Newswire
Fair Isaac, Think Partnership join forces on new ad marketplace
BtoB Online

Products, Markets & People
AOL takes Truveo online video search international
Download Squad
Wolters Network Now Includes SEC Comment Letters
Metropolitan Corp. Counsel

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Monday, October 29, 2007

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Sunday, October 28, 2007
Trends
Yahoo opening up home page to outside sources
CNET News
FCC member requests formal inquiry into News Corp.-Dow Jones deal
BtoB Online
Time Warner shares rise on CEO exit speculation
Reuters
Microsoft invests $240 million in Facebook
AP via CNN
Mercury News Tries To Catch Up, After Being In the Perpetually Poised Position For Social Media
paidContent.org
Senators Threatening Telcos With Probe Over Net Neutrality
TechCrunch
Online Citizen Journalism Now Undeniably Mainstream
Read/Write Web
Senate passes Internet tax moratorium extension: 7 more years tax-free
Ars Technica
Coming next week: A tax on your e-mail?
CNET News
TheStreet.com Steers A Long, Bumpy Road
IBD via CNN Money
Loving the Internet Survey: 24% of Americans say the Internet could replace a partner for a while
Computerworld
California Wildfire Coverage by Local Media, Blogs, Twitter, Maps and More
MediaShift
Maghound: a Netflix for Magazines?
AdAge
After Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again
The New York Times

Best Practices
The Google Page Rank Pendulum Swings…. Again
ProBlogger
Microsoft blocks FairUse4WM v2 after 3 months of DRM free music
ZDNet Blogs

Cool Tools
iMooch: Social Networking Meets Content Marketplace
iMooch
Terabyte nanotech thumb drives around the corner?
Engadget
Mindtouch rising in the open-source wiki market
CNET Blogs
News Flows, Consciousness Streams: The Headwaters of a River of Words
The New York Times

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
Agence France-Presse Signs With Teletrax for Global Analysis of Video News Content Usage
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Wiley-Blackwell Journals Contribute To Council Of Science Editor's Global Theme Issue
Medical News Today
Tribune to Sell Two Papers In Connecticut to Hearst
WSJ Online*

Products, Markets & People
Another Yahoo Exec Departs
All Things DIgital
MySpace exec gets the heave-ho
ValleyWag
Mansueto Launches Business Social Networking Site IncBizNet
FOLIO: Magazine

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Monday, October 22, 2007

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Sunday, October 21, 2007

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Friday, October 19, 2007
Trends
Google quarterly profit swells 46 percent
Reuters via ZDNet
YouTube-Viacom lawsuit looms over antipiracy plans
CNET News
Plan Would Ease Limits on Media Owners
The New York Times
Web 2.0 Summit 2007: Mary Meeker and Internet Trends
Read/Write Web
When the A-List Gets It Wrong: Scoble/Rubel
Center Networks
WordPress and Federated Media Being Hawked Seriously; Velocity Among Others In The Mix; WP Buys
paidContent.org
US Congress: Bloggers Are Journalists Too
Read/Write Web
CBS, Microsoft, and MySpace Unveil Copyright Guidelines
PC World
Recipe for killing Internet in India
The Times of India
Futurists Envision the Newspaper in 2020
World Ass'n of Newspapers
John Battelle wants to hike his rates
ValleyWag
Google Adsense Exploring Games
GigaOM
News Corp. May End WSJ.com Fees; Opens MySpace Code
Bloomberg News
Facebook to Crash the Online Advertising Party
eWeek

Best Practices
Publish or patent -- or both
Business Review of W. Michigan

Cool Tools
Microsoft Launches Drag-And-Drop App Builder Popfly
TechCrunch
Moo now offers postcards
Download Squad

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
AskMeNow Powers Answers for Ask Frank's Mobile Q&A Service
Marketwire via CNN Money
JargonFish(TM) Adds Publisher Partners
BusinessWire

Products, Markets & People
MedBioWorld Portal Significantly Expands Resource Content
BusinessWire
Mobile search service by Truvo
Let's Go Mobile
Dow Jones Significantly Increases Operating Income Again in Third Quarter 2007
BusinessWire
McGraw-Hill Profit Up 18 Percent
Reuters via The New York Times
Media General Profit Plunges 88 Percent
AP via The New York Times
BBC to Cut 1, 800 Jobs as It Confronts Digital Age
Reuters via The New York Times

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Trends
FaceForce: Facebook Meets Salesforce.com

Programmable Web
Blogs as reliable as mainstream media - ACCC
AAP via News.com.au
Led Zeppelin to sell music online
Reuters
Apple drops price of DRM-free iTunes
Webware
Can Google's Video ID System Secure YouTube?
Internet News
Napster to launch web-only music service
Download Squad
Current TV expands limits by having users create broadcast content
San Francisco Chronicle
More of us seek medical information online
Raleigh News & Observer
Five Reasons Why a Pay Per Click Recession Looms
Micro Persuasion
Yahoo! Making Strides in Search Marketing? A Result of Panama?
Read/Write Web
Guardian and Observer to launch online archive
The Guardian
Magazine ad revenue up 5.6% through third quarter
BtoB Online
AOL to Trim 2,000 Jobs in a Continuing Overhaul
The New York Times
Startup launches intellectual property site for scientific research
EE Times

Best Practices
News director wins newspaper of future contest
Aiken Standard

Books clearing out to make way for Internet, computers on
campus

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
USA TODAY and Tribune Media Services to Launch New Weekly Edition of USA TODAY Abroad
PR Newswire via CNN Money
E.W. Scripps to Split in Two; Scripps Networks Interactive to be Spun Off to Shareholders
paidContent.org
Financial Firms to Benefit from Reuters and TIBCO Spotfire Partnership
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Facebook Users Can Now Create a Wetpaint Wiki to Collaborate
Marketwire

Products, Markets & People
TechTarget Launches ITKnowledgeExchange.com
BusinessWire
InfoWorld Editor Resigns Following CEO, Top Sales Exec
FOLIO: Magazine

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Sunday, October 14, 2007

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Thursday, October 11, 2007
Trends
AP Sues VeriSign's Moreover
PCWorld via Yahoo! News
Thomson's bid for Reuters faces EU antitrust investigation
Hartford Business
Internet Company to Let Consumers Profit From Posted Videos
The New York Times
eBay Builds Social Networking into Site
Marketing Pilgrim
And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Madonna Dumps Record Industry
Sydney Morning Herald
EMI Releases George Harrison’s Solo Albums DRM-Free
Mashable
Looking To Its Future, NYTCO Sees A Tech Services Company; Patents Pending
paidContent.org
Making YouTube Pay Off
Forbes
Clooney Proves Private Health Records Not So Private
ABC News
Wikipedia Information on Surgical Procedures Generally Accurate: Presented at ACS
Doctor's Guide
Fox readies new business channel
Newsday
Why NBC Universal Wants Oxygen Media for Nearly $1 Billion
Xchange
Facebook Traffic Tanks - This can’t be real?
GigaOM
Frankfurt book fair: a meaty occasion
Information World Review
New wiki targets federal IT community
FCW.com
Nielsen's new media push
CNET News

Best Practices
How To Design Effective And Usable Navigation Tabs
Robin Good
'Dark Web' Project Takes On Cyber-Terrorism
Fox News
Information wants to be free. The database as the media of tomorrow
Hypernarrative
7 Rules for Social Media
HyperGene
Can science blogs save science journalism?
USC Annenberg OJR

Cool Tools
First Look: Google Earth with YouTube Video
PC World
Google Enterprise Search gets social
ZDNet
Onstream Media Set to Introduce Visual Webcaster HD(TM) and iEncode(TM)
PR Newswire via CNN Money
What can STM publishers learn from Shelfari's new widget
Really Simple Sidi

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
TheMarkets.com and InfoNgen Launch Bullseye
PR Newswire
Regence Introduces Two New Plans Designed Especially for Small to Mid-Size Companies
PR Newswire
Reed Construction Data Partners with RCMS Group
ThomasNet
CBS eyes gossip site for $10 million
ValleyWag

Products, Markets & People
Voxant Distributes More Than 43,000 Health News Videos, Articles and Images
PR Newswire
Dow Jones Introduces Factiva Insight: Agency Analytics for PR and Communications Professionals
PR Newswire via CNN Money

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Monday, October 08, 2007
Trends
Zipidee Startup Looks to Sell All Things Digital
Red Herring
For Google, Advertising and Phones Go Together
The New York Times
Google’s Share of U.S. Online Ads Hits 40 Percent
TechCrunch
Yahoo Changes Questionable Sponsored Search Policy. Can Anyone Tell?
Mashable
Analyst says Yahoo worth more if broken up
Reuters
Good News, Bad News about Facebook Application Market: Long Tail Rules
O'Reilly Radar
Senate Bill Aims to Define Who Is a Journalist
Washington Post
Microsoft HealthVault: Who Are You Going To Trust?
Forbes
Spiegel Rejects Purchase Of FT Deutschland Stake
WSJ Online*
Centaur Media to discontinue Perfect Analysis service
Hemscott
Scientists, publishers and authors rage against PRISM
Information World Review
Is Apple losing some of its shine?; Recent moves to impose control risk alienating longtime loyalists
LA Times via Content Agenda
Car repair firm accused of infringing musical copyright because its employees listen to radios at work
BBC News
U.S. Online Ad Spending Topped $5 Billion in Second Quarter
Bloomberg News
A Look at Federal Government Blogs
AP via Google

Best Practices
Goodbye to Splogs and Feed-Driven Blogs
Blog Herald
Google and IBM build 'cloud computing' data centers online
IHT
From The Information Age To The Connected Age
GigaOM
The Semantic Web Will Redefine Content Management
CMS Web
YouTube: The Big Copyright Lie
Coding Horror

Cool Tools
More Features For Creating Your Own Digg: coRank
Mashable
Chris Harrison: Maps of Internet Connections
Chris Harrison
Upspring is LinkedIn, Facebook & Google Ads Rolled Up in One
Mashable
washingtonpost.com Launches "Election Collection '08" Widget, New Mobile Election '08 Channel
BusinessWire

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
MSNBC Interactive News Acquires Newsvine
AP via Google News
MuseGlobal-Groxis Partnership Transforms Content Into Information
Information Today
ROO Group Enhances Content Offerings Aimed at $79 Billion Online Travel Market with GeoBeats, Inc.
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Mixx Helps USAT, Reuters.com, Weather Channel to Deliver Personalized News, Images and Video
PR Newswire
Duke University Press Chooses the ebrary Platform to Sell and Distribute New eBook Collection
BusinessWire
Thomson Financial in data distribution deal with Paladyne Systems
Thomson Financial/CNN

Products, Markets & People
Near-Time(R) Introduces User-Generated Solutions(SM)
BusinessWire
Mediasurface Solves Newspaper Publishing Dilemma
SourceWire
Worlds Largest Articles Announces 600,000 Article Database Software
PR Web
blinkx Goes Global, Offers Native Language Video Search for France, Germany and Spain
PRNewswire via EarthTimes
Wolters Kluwer Health Appoints Gordon Macomber As President & CEO Of Professional & Education Unit
ABN Newswire

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Saturday, October 06, 2007

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Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Trends
Adobe plans online document sharing
CBR
Blogs get the old-media habit
FT.com
Yahoo's Revival Meeting: In Search of "Insane Greatness"
O'Reilly Radar
Microsoft Chief Ballmer Plays Down Facebook Reports
Bloomberg News
eBay: What to do with Skype?
CNET News
Yahoo Considering “Strategic Options” For Comparison Shopping Service Kelkoo in Europe
paidContent.org
Upgraded Search Experience, 'Search Assist' & Multimedia Content In Results: Yahoo
Search Engine Land
All for Open Access: Let’s welcome the end of for-profit academic publishing
The Harvard Crimson
U.S. Media Revenue Jumped 8% to $287 Billion
Advertising Age
Facebook's legal issues escalate as N.Y. attorney general strengthens warnings
CNET News
Google Cuts Ads From Orkut Service
WSJ Online*

Best Practices
Research Trends:Scientific trends using bibliometric analysis
Really Simple Sidi

Cool Tools
Service Helps Friends Share Their Online Discoveries
The New York Times
Sony's PRS-505 eBook reader now on sale
Engadget

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
Voxant, The New Media Network, Signs on Getty Images, Adds News Feeds for the AP and Reuters
PR Newswire via JRJ
New York Times and A.D.A.M. Add Unique Site Depth To Online Health Content
BusinessWire
Connotate Selected to Automate Knowledge Management Process at The Associated Press
BusinessWire via LivePR
American Anthropological Association Adds More than 20 Publications to Wiley-Blackwells Social Sciences
Presswire via Trading Markets
Aptara Partners With IOP Publishing in Production of Leading Astronomy Journals
Marketwire via Sys-Con

Products, Markets & People
BatchBlue - Contact management designed for the small business
Emily Chang
CCH Introduces New CorpSystem(TM) Suite of Solutions for Corporate Tax Professionals
PR Newswire via EarthTimes
Business Objects Reaches into Unstructured Data
Enterprise Systems
Advertising and Media Executives Join Transpera Team
PR Newswire

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Sunday, September 30, 2007

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Thursday, September 27, 2007
Trends
Study Offers Surprising Numbers on Newspaper/Yahoo Deal
Editor and Publisher
Microsoft plays catch-up on search
WebWare
Microsoft, Google square off in Washington over DoublClick
CNET News
Yahoo Search Updating Index & Algorithm
Search Engine Land
7 Reasons Why Second Life Should Matter For Biz Executives
GIgaOM
Search Fulfillment: Yahoo! is best of breed
Compete Blog
Web Apps Hit the Mainstream
Read/Write Web
A Small Group Make Most Web 2.0 Content
CNET News
AP Ends Book Reviews, LA Times Also Makes Book Changes
Publishers Weekly
ABC News Reorganizes, Focuses on Digital
Broadcasting and Cable
Sling's CEO on being acquired by EchoStar: "We are going to rock"
Engadget
Facebook overtakes MySpace in the UK
VNUNet

Best Practices
What's More Important Page Views Or User Experience Satisfaction?
Robin Good
Develop Your Widget Strategy
Killer Startups
Is Enterprise RSS the Next Killer App?
ServerWatch
Turn Gmail (or any E-mail Account) Into a Social Network Hub
MicroPersuasion
Majority of U.S. Companies Have Not Conducted ROI Studies for Business Intelligence Investments
BusinessWire

Cool Tools
Google Book Search Adds New Organization Features
Mashable
Is Apple planning an e-card service? Seems so from this Patent application
ZDNet Blogs

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
RavenPack to Deliver Dow Jones News Analytics with API for Customers' Proprietary Trading Systems
PR Newswire
Mark Logic and RWD Technologies Join to Deliver Content-Centric Applications to Life Sciences Industry
Marketwire
LexisNexis provides content for Halsbury’s Law Magazine
Money Control
Financial Media Group, Inc. Partners with Leading List Management Firm
PR Newswire
Idearc Media and MagicYellow Sign Distribution Agreement
BusinessWire
ContentGuard Extends License With Zinio
Marketwire

Products, Markets & People
LexisNexis Launches Lexis(R) Front Office Powered by Time Matters(R) 9.0
BusinessWire
Talking Things - Wiki-Encyclopedia for Products
PRWeb
Reader's Digest Names Jeff Wellington Publisher
FOLIO: Magazine

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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Trends
Amazon starts music store
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Is Sling Media acquisition good sign for IPTV?
CNET News
EarmarkWatch.org Enables D.I.Y. Investigative Work
MediaShift
Microsoft lookfs to Facebook if Yahoo Won't Play
New York Post
Facebook, Flush Under the Spotlight
Reuters MediaFile
Todays Takeover Rumor Bought to You By Google And Sirius
TechCrunch
Gannett and Web 3.0
Seeking Alpha
Big media enters the spin zone: Big assets to be unloaded?
CNN Money
Google's Eileen Naughton Says Advertising Types Will 'Converge'
Bloomberg News
The View From Your Airplane Window Was Brought to You by ...
The New York Times
AOL Quietly Cans Weblogs Inc Life Sciences Blogs
TechCrunch

Cool Tools
Acrobat Connect Professional Reviewed
Robin Good
Real Time Search Soon At Twitter
TechCrunch

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
Demand Media Adds $100 Million More Funding; Total Comes To $320 Million
paidContent.org
Belo and Mochila Announce Strategic Partnership
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Simon & Schuster Adopts MuseStorm for Authoring and Syndicating Highly Interactive Intelligent Widgets
PR Newswire
Open Text Bridges the Gap Between Editorial and User-Generated Content with RedDot Modules
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Portfolio.com to partner with HarvardBusiness.org
BtoB Online
Edmunds.com Selects Tubes for Automotive-Related Multimedia Content Distribution Platform
Marketwire
HealthiNation Teams up with Prevention.com to Expand Health & Lifestyle On-Demand Video
PR Newswire

Products, Markets & People
Blackboard's Social Bookmarking Service, Scholar, Enables Global Information Sharing Across Academia
Marketwire via CNN Money
New Exalead Semantic Search Service to Help People Find, Organize, Share and Enhance Content Online
JRJ
mSpoke's FeedHub Eliminates the Information Overload Problem Plaguing the Attention Economy
PR Newswire via EarthTimes
Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance Simplifies Retrieval of Text and Structured Data
Marketwire

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Saturday, September 22, 2007

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Thursday, September 20, 2007

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Trends
NBC to offer a free video download service
The New York Times
Digg turns its social networking up a few notches
CNET News
News Corp. Plans to Save $100 Million From Dow Jones
Bloomberg News
Google phone rumors heat up
Crave
Zillow Raises $30 Million More, Up To $87 Million in Venture Capital
TechCrunch
Man files best lawsuit ever against Google
Download Squad
Alfred A Knopf: How the great literary publisher proved to be the great rejecter
The Independent
China: Net spy damage has been 'massive'
Reuters via CNET
Magazines Eclipse Newspapers in Ad Revenue Share
FOLIO: Magazine
Kerry Taser Video Brings Record Traffic To 'Gainesville Sun'
Editor & Publisher
Neutron Randy Vaporizes AOL
The New York Times

Best Practices
Business Intelligence: One Version of the Truth
Computerworld
Study says DRM counters Canadian privacy laws
IT World Canada
Peer Review and a Proposal for Revision
E Pluribus Media

Cool Tools
Google Expands Google Gadget Ads For Advertisers Beta
Search Engine Land
NASA, Google Bring More of the Moon to Earth
PC World
iPhone Heads to Germany
TheStreet.com / Content Agenda

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
MSN and Variety Forge Distribution Relationship
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Multiply Selects Omniture to Enhance the Social Networking Experience
Marketwire via CNN Money
Borders(R) and Sony(R) Team Up to Promote e-books
PR Newswire via CNN Money

Products, Markets & People
Tacit Software's illumio Upgrade Makes Sharing Knowledge and Monitor News, Blogs, and Wikis Easy
PRWeb
Thomas Technology Solutions and ThomComp, Inc. Merge to Form Content Data Solutions, Inc.
BusinessWire
John Wiley & Sons Ltd: Wiley-Blackwell to Publish Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine
Trading Markets
Business Objects Launches BI OnDemand
Intelligent Enterprise
InfoUSA to compile U.K. database
BtoB Online
Referex eBooks Database Launches 3 New Collections And Over 900 Additional Titles
WebWire

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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Trends
Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site
The New York Times (no *!)
Murdoch makes case for free WSJ online
Reuters via Yahoo! News
Content is Dead. Community is King Now
Search Engine Guide
Why Some Web 2.0 Sites Will Never Attract Big Ad Dollars
Micro Persuasion
Dick Parsons, CEO, Time Warner: No Spinoff Of AOL Yet
paidContent.org
First Look: SpiralFrog Offers Free Music with a Hefty Price
PC World
Salesforce targets enterprise content management
VNUNet
Yahoo adds wiki twist to Mash
VNUNet
Facebook backs fund to help find new apps
Mercury News
MySpace to Discuss Effort to Customize Ads
The New York Times
Macrovision: Legal DVD Copying On Deck
IBD via CNN Money
Salesforce to Launch Community Platform for Clients
Mashable

Best Practices
User Generated Content on Social Networking Sites Set to Go Pro and Boost Broadband Penetration
Newswire
Economist Confused About the Semantic Web?
O'Reilly Radar
Bill Gates, the man with the remotest idea to change lives
Fairfax Digital

Cool Tools
Reuters Labs Launches Search People in Video Feature
Mashable
No more wallet needed with MobiBucks
Download Squad
Google Offers 'Collaboration in the Cloud'
eWeek

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
Mark Logic and Trinity Technologies Partner to Deliver XML Technology to Financial Services Industry
Marketwire
Cygnus Business Media Deploys iCopyright on 60 Web Sites
Marketwire
VMS Selects Autonomy to Support Real-Time Media Intelligence
PR Newswire
Hearst Acquires 'Real Age'
FOLIO: Magazine

Products, Markets & People
Google Formally Introduces AdSense For Mobile
Search Engine Land

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Monday, September 17, 2007
Trends
USA Today: At 25, 'McPaper' Is All Grown Up
The New York Times*
For Time Warner, a time to break up?
Fortune via CNN Money
More Restructuring at Time Inc.’s Business and Finance Network
FOLIO: Magazine
AOL HQ moving to New York, business model moving to advertising
Download Squad
Has smart money abandoned U.S. Web 2.0 companies?
Venture Beat
Interview: Ron Grant, President & COO, AOL: Time For A Network Approach
paidContent.org
In an iPod world, the future is always now
Toronto Star
Google, DoubleClick Deal Challenged Again
Web Pro News
Wall Street Journal to Launch Monthly Glossy Magazine
Prime Newswire via CNN Money
Keep an eye on: Time Warner
Reuters MediaFile
Microsoft plays nice with the EU
VNUNet via Content Agenda
Newspapers Are Going 'Widget'-Happy'
The Examiner
InfoSpace Surges on Switchboard.com Sale
WSJ Online*
Publications on Fitness and Health Head to Web
The New York Times*

Best Practices
Fear of Web 2.0
Read/Write Web
Making Real-World Noise about Online SItes: The Yelp Elite Squad
Bokardo

Cool Tools
Amazon Gets Widget With It
ResearchBuzz
reCAPTCHA: Using Captchas To Digitize Books
TechCrunch

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
Reuters Choses Attribtor to Protect Content
Mashable
Al Jazeera and iHorizons team up to win best 'Media & Education Implementation of the year'
AME Info
Yahoo Acquires Zimbra For $350 million in Cash
TechCrunch
Endeca Selects Bazaarvoice for Social Navigation Capabilities within New Endeca Discovery Suite
PR Database

Products, Markets & People
SpiralFrog(TM) Launches Free Ad-Supported Music Service
BusinessWire
LexisNexis Adds TotalPatent to Its Suite of Solutions
Information Today, Inc.
Dow Jones Beats Reuters, Bloomberg and Thomson as Top News Provider: Tri-State Traders and IT Pros
PR Newswire via CNN Money
ALM and Courtroom View Network Join to Bring Online Courtroom Video to Litigators, Law Firms and Schools
BusinessWire
Juris from LexisNexis Launches New Business Intelligence Reporting Module
BusinessWire

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Friday, September 14, 2007
Trends
New Net taxes could arrive in November
CNET News
Wikipedia: 2-million articles and counting
Download Squad
Thomson-Reuters Deal to Spark Race
WSJ Online*
Google as and Election Portal, With a Twist
The New York Times*
Yahoo's Presidential 'Mashup Debate' Won't Support Mashups
Wired News
Brightcove Ends Development Of Video Portal To Focus On Publishing Services
paidContent.org
Google offers $30 million for robotic rover on the Moon
Times Online
Google promises to lead crusade for international privacy rules
Canadian Press
Does Facebook's privacy policy stack up?
Times Online
Bloggers Make Jump to TV Shows — But Should They?
MediaShift
Is the iPod (gasp) Doomed?
Reuters MediaFile
Were Techmeme and Sphere too greedy?
Mathew Ingram
How law enforcement uses Google Earth
CNET News
Reed Elsevier's Feel-Good Friday
Forbes

Best Practices
Taming the World of Unstructured Data
DM Review
Organizing The World’s Push Content: The iGoogle Ecosystem
Search Engine Land
How to Optimize for Yahoo!
ISE DB

Cool Tools
WhoDoes: Online Collaboration for Project Managers
Mashable
Yahoo Invites Us Into Mash, Its New Social Network
TechCrunch
Not all that Wired about it: Communication technology gets the short end at NextFest
USC Annenberg OJR
Google Presently Set For Launch Next Week
Read/Write Web

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
Yahoo Buys BuzzTracker
Houston Chronicle
Tubes Adds Diggnation, ScobleShow, Rocketboom and Other Content to Tubes Hub
Marketwire
Yahoo enters exclusive ad deal with Bebo
BtoB Online

Products, Markets & People
Nstein Technologies announces clarification of previous press releases
CNW Group
Google launches array of India-specific Internet services
IndUS Business Journal
SixApart Has A New CEO, Chairman
GigaOM

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Trends
University-Press Leader Quit Publishers' Panel Over Anti-Open-Access Campaign
Chronicle of Higher Education
Leaked Google Video Discusses Google Reader, Social Efforts
Google Blogoscoped
Youtube in Talks for Video News Service With Ads
Korea Times
Office 2.0: Web 2.0's Higher Standard
Internet News
New Social Sites Cater to People of a Certain Age
The New York Times*
User-Driven News More Diverse Than Mainstream Coverage
Search Engine Land
Amazon Launches Web Startup Contest
Mashable
Microsoft Patents Watermark That May Protect DRM-free Music
PC World
Netscape Social News to be Relaunched as Propeller.com
Netscape
As NY Times print revenues sink, online revenues soar in August 28.2 percent
The New York Times*
Yahoo's audience slightly smaller than Google's, but far stickier
Business 2.0 Utility Belt

Best Practices
Google, duplicate content caused by URL parameters, and you
Google Blog
Is Googling for research "good enough" for your bottom line? Productivity of free and paid search tools
Really Simple Sidi
Don't Fall into the Pixel or Wiki Page Trap
Best Syndication

Cool Tools
Redefining the Architecture of Memory
The New York Times*

Deals, Partnerships and Sales
Yahoo wins exclusive ad deal for Bebo UK, Ireland
Reuters via Yahoo! News
Mark Logic Partners With Gimmal Group to Deliver XML Content Management to Finance, Manufacturing
MarketWire
CME Group Renews Exclusive License of Dow Jones Industrial Average Futures Contracts
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Weatherbonk Mashup Acquired by The Weather Channel
Programmable Web

Products, Markets & People
Intellectual Property Professionals Manage Patents More Effectively using LexisNexis TotalPatent(TM)
TradingMarkets

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